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Pembrokeshire English

While new settlers colonised South Pembrokeshire, plying their trades, setting up towns and villages and enclosing fields, the native Welsh remained in the north, beyond a ‘frontier’, labelled the Landsker Line in the early 20th century. The name of this ‘frontier’ comes from the Norse term for boundary being ‘sker’.

This divide is apparent to a degree today with South Pembrokeshire English being heard in Narberth and Welsh just three miles away in Clynderwen.

Roch Castle, which is part of the Landsker Line​.

So the dialect of South Pembrokeshire is quite unique, being based on a bedrock of native Welsh, seasoned with Norse, to which, after the Normans arrived, was added a large helping of West Country English and some Flemish.